Thoughts on these floating plants

Looking to try something other than dwarf water lettuce & frogbit. I'm looking for a plant that stays smaller and doesn't get super long, or crazy bushy roots. Also Not duckweed. I have medium lighting and I do dose, no CO2 though. After briefly looking up options online I came up with 3 ideas:

*red root floaters (phyllanthus fluitans)
*azolla (Caroliniana)
*riccia fluitans
or maybe a medium size type of salvinia?

Just looking for some feedback. Better yet, if you have any PM me.

 

I tried the riccia. love the color, grew well got into every thing worse or as bad as duckweed for getiing all over you in your filters nets ect. I finally trashed it. same thing with the duckweed and water spangles. Now I use water sprite and anacharis as floater. much easier to deal with for me. Alison

 

I've had Azolla and Red Root Floaters and loved them both. IIRC the Azolla had the smaller roots.

 

Water lettuce is great, I also like hornwort. No duckweed unless you like clogged filters

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Azolla is lovely, although I've had better luck in water with less movement.

And it spreads super fast!

 

Ive got a small salvinia in my 8g bowl and riccia in my 100 gallon main tank. The roots on the salvinia only seem to get a few cm long but aren't bushy enough for anything to hide in. I'm always netting fry from the riccia thou to transfer to a grow out tank as well as finding tiny strange live critters in there